Young Musician Quotes

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

When I was 8 years old, I was already very interested in music.

I'm the youngest of three boys, and my oldest brother was super into Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and played guitar. I wanted to be like him, so I asked for a guitar of my own for Christmas in '93.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.